Lavatory.



No. 828,912. PATBNTEDAUG. 21, 1906. G. WBELANS.

LAVATORY.

YAPPLICATION FILED JULYl, 1905.

h' IIII A WTL/less@ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo LAVATORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21 1906.

Application filed July l5. 1905. Serial No. 269,776.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs WEELANs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lavatories, of which I -same and strengthening the same without adding materially to its weight.

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Lavatories to which my invention particularly relates comprise a bowl and slab united to the upper edge of the bowl, such slab being provided with aflange called the apron, This flange is provided not only for visual effect, but also for the prevention of undue warping of the slab at its outer edges during the firing proc ess. It is impossible, however, to prevent distortion of the slab by warping occurring during the firing process without the adoption of further means for sustaining the slab against the draft of the bowl, which, owing to its weight and its location entirely to one side ofthe lane of the slab, is found to distort the slab when in a plastic condition unless it be well supported. Various means have been resorted to for the stiffening and support of the slab and bowl when in a plastic condition both before and during the process of firing, but with only qualified success. For instance, such structures have been provided with a web connecting the bottom part of the depending flange with the wall of the bowl, such web being continuous around the bowl and lying in a plane parallel to the plane of the slab. Another device adopted for such purpose is a continuous web connecting the edge of the depending flange with the under side of the slab cutside of the circumference of the bowl; but these devices, while tending to' maintain the iiange, have not'been adequate to the prevention of undue distortion of the slab itself not only at and about its junction with the bowl, but particularly at that part of the slab through which apertures are formed for the water-pipes and waste control.

The gist of my invention is the introduction between the flange and the wall of the bowl of struts or brackets, preferably formed of the same material as the lavatory and conpractically nected with the ange and the bowl and so disposed as not only to sustain the weight of the bowl largely from the flange during firing, but also to afford a diagonal or upward thrust from the fiange to the bowl when the lavatory is completed and in use, thereby greatly strengthening the entire structure without an appreciable increase in its wei ht. Further, these brackets are so constructe as to facilitate the work of the plumber in setting up the lavator The brackets referred to are of web-like form, but their walls are either curved or formed at angles to each other, so that portions of the web attain or approximate perpendicularity to the plane of the slab, and the webs are so connected to the flange as to effectually prevent warping thereof, aswell as to prevent warping of the sla In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, I have illustrated the preferred form of my invention, and wherein- Figure l shows a plan view of the bottom or under side of the lavatory. Fig. 2 shows a vertical cross-sectional view thereof, taken on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows a vertical cross-sectional view of the same, taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. l.

In the drawings, A is the bowl, B is the slab, and C is the depending flange or apron. The flange C is continuous around the outer edge of the slab B.

D D are the brackets or supporting-webs, which I introduce for the before-mentioned purposes. same plastic material of which the lavatory consists and constitute walls or webs of a' uniform thickness throughout. The partsv e thereof lie in a plan substantially parallel to the plane of the slab B and at right angles to the planes of the de ending flange C. The parts f of the webs'D form an oblique angle with the planes of the slab B and the parts e of the saidwebs, and these walls f are connected at their ends with the depending flange C and the wall of the bowl A, and the parts e are similarly connected. Preferably the walls f are separated by a small space from the under side of the slab B, as shown at g g in Fig. 3. I prefer to keep the walls f separated from the slab B, as such separation of the said parts tends to obviate fracture or cracking during the contraction of the material incident to cool- By curving the oblique ing after firing.

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and connecting their ends with the depend-AV ing flange C at h, L, h2, and ha (see Fig. l) I greatly stillen the brackets, and while giving such support to the depending flange C as prevents the warping of the flange during ring I coincidently aflord an ample support to the bowl. .i

In firing the lavatory it is placed in a saggar so as to stand upon one of its ends, thereby disposing one of its brackets D D beneath The downward pressure of the bowl upon the bracket beneath it absolutely prevents any separation of the wall of the owl from the edge of that bracket, while the weight of the depending flange and of' the bracket on the upper side of the bowl prevent all separation of those parts. This construction and method of placing the lavatory in the kiln prevents not only allwarping of the slab B and depending flange C, but prevents warping of the brackets and entirely obviates all separation of the parts, which are stuck together with clay or other material of which the lavatory is constructed, the several parts of the structure being separately molded originally and then joined in the manner mentioned. Thus are obviated'several objectionable results following firing with all other methods of construction heretofore known or practiced.

An additional advantage derived from my construction is the free access obtainable by the plumber to that part of the slab through which the water-supply pipes are passed and the waste control is efl'ectuated. The entire structure is also greatly stiffened and stengthened by the curving or angularity of the walls of the supporting-brackets, it being understood that instead of forming the angles in the walls of the webs, as herein described, the same may be produced in a curved form, the ellect being substantially the same in each case and the one forrn the equivalent of the other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a lavatory comprising a bowl, and a slab having a depending flange, brackets connecting said bowl and said flange, said brackets consisting of webs in part attaining or approximating erpendicularityto the plane of the slab, su stantially as shown and described.

2. Ina lavatory comprising a bowl, and a slab having a flange depending from its edges, brackets connecting said bowl and said flange, said brackets being formed of webs Wconnected with the bowl and with the lower part' of the flange throughout its entire eX- tent at the ends of the slab and its adjacent portions bounding the back and front sides of the slab, and having their sides between the bowl and the slab disposed at a curve or angle to the slab, providing open spaces between the bowl and the sides of the said brackets, and parts of the flange at the back and front sides of the slab, substantially as described.

3. In a lavatory comprising a bowl and a slab having a depending flange, two brackets connecting said bowl and said flange, each of said brackets consisting of a web lying prinvcipally in a plane parallel to the plane of the slab and-connected with the lower part of the flange throughout its entire portion bound# ing an end of the slab and the contiguous portions of said flange at tlieback and front sides of the slab, said web being turned at the sides of said bracket at a curve to the plane ofthe slab, substantially as de-l scribed.

4. In a lavatory comprising 'a bowl, and a slab having a depending flange, two brackets connecting said bowl with said flange, each of said brackets consisting of a web lying or angle principally in a plane parallel to the plane of the slab and connected with the lower part of the flange throughout its entire portions bounding the end of the slab and the contiguous parts of the flange at the sides ofthe slab, said web being turned at the sides of said bracket at a curve or angle to the plane of the slab, and describing longitudinally a curve from the point Awhere it is connected with said flange to the point where the same is connected with said bowl, said two brackets being separated from each other by open spaces intervening between the bowl and the middle portions of the depending flange at the back and front sides of the slab, substantially as described.r

CHARLES WEELANS.

I. M. ALTEMUs.

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